Some developers and development finance people suggest the resource exchange strategy could be a potential stumbling block. In their view, a strategy targeting companies that can use each other’s byproducts could make it difficult to gain financing. Investors might see this method of targeting as unconventional, increasing the risk of an empty park. If the exchanges create too much interdependency among the companies, the failure of one or two critical links could- damage the performance of the whole network in an EIP. This perception could be an obstacle to recruitment as well as investment (A. Goldschmidt, personal communication, 1995).